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Zemiaki language
Nuristani language of Kunar, Afghanistan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zemiaki is a Nuristani language spoken by some 400–500 people in the Kunar Province of Afghanistan.[1]
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It is named after the settlement in which it is spoken, from the Pashto Zemyaki žə́ba "language of Zemyaki", the native equivalent being J̌amlām-am bašā. It is closely related to Nuristani Kalasha, and ancestors of the Zemyakis were, according to local tradition, Kalasha people who migrated into the area several centuries ago.[1] The language spoken in the surrounding areas is Pashto, and it has been a source of a large number of lexical borrowings, including several common conjunctions.[2]
There is no grammatical gender, but number and person are marked on the verb,[3] following a split-ergative pattern of agreement.[4]
It was thought that Zemiaki is a dialect of Grangali, an Indo-Aryan language. However, its pronouns are characteristically Nuristani, with a close relationship to Nuristani Kalasha, which is confirmed by local tradition.
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Vocabulary
Pronouns
Numbers
- yok
- du
- tre
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- doš
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